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Genre | Comedy |
Format | NTSC, Dubbed, Subtitled, Dolby, AC-3, Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
Contributor | Anna Faris |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 37 minutes |
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Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
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"I'm an expert in parties and boys. I'm a Bunny! Men write to me from prison--sometimes in their own blood!" So declares ex-Playboy Bunny Shelley, tossed out of the Mansion by a rival for her advanced age (27--"59 in bunny years," she's told). As played by the utterly fearless and appealing Anna Faris, Shelley becomes an unlikely post-feminist heroine, who finds a great use for her not-too-considerable expertise: being sexy. With nowhere else to live, Shelley finds herself as the house mother for a dying sorority, the Zetas, who are the audience for the rallying cry above. And the slightly misfit sisters, though wary, end up giving Shelley a sisterhood she could never have built back at the Grotto. To help build up the sorority, Shelley gives the young women her own peculiar tutorials in charm school--helping them raise their campus profile and recruit new pledges in the process. "When I'm done, every girl on campus will want to pledge Zeta!" Ignore her at your peril, girls. If the formula is a bit predictable, the pace is lively and the cast, headed by the wide-eyed Faris, is aces. American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee is a natural on camera, as is Rumer Willis, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. The supporting cast includes the capable Colin Hanks and Beverly D'Angelo, and a bit too much screen time for the real-life Hugh Hefner, who maybe should have stayed on the set of The Girls Next Door. Still, Faris channels the cheerful, girly determination of Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods--no surprise since The House Bunny was cowritten by Kirsten Smith, who wrote Legally Blonde. Fans of silly romances, hop to it.--A.T. Hurley
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : MFR043396252998#VG
- Media Format : NTSC, Dubbed, Subtitled, Dolby, AC-3, Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 37 minutes
- Release date : December 19, 2008
- Actors : Anna Faris
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, French
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : Sony
- ASIN : B0018CNNV2
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #40,607 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,707 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #4,950 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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So, why am I writing this review? Because I have recently become an aficionado of the films of Anna Faris, after viewing the amazing 2007 “Smiley Face” (which I have reviewed elsewhere on Amazon). “The House Bunny” has become a cult favorite also, although not to the extent of “Smiley Face”. Anna Faris was thirty-one years old when she did “House Bunny” in 2008. Among her costars are the future A-lister Emma Stone, then just one year into her film career, in a frumpy role, Tom Hanks’ son Colin, in his third film, as well as Rumer Willis at twenty, Bruce and Demi’s daughter, in one of her first films without one of her parents. Some portions of “House Bunny” were shot at the Playboy mansion and Hugh Hefner, at eighty-two, shows up as himself in the film.
Anna Faris’ character, Shelley Darlington, introduces herself as “My name is Shelley. Now I live in the Playboy mansion, and this is where I want to live happily ever after”. The first twenty minutes of the film sound as they might have been written by Hugh Hefner as a premature epitaph (maybe they were). Shelly continues with “Being a centerfold is the highest most prestigious honor there is” (!?!). On life at the mansion: “Oh, it’s paradise. We’re just one big family. I am so happy. Why would I want to live anywhere else?”. At the store, after shopping with three other playmates - on the mansion’s account - as a prelude to her twenty-seventh birthday bash, “Aren’t we just the luckiest girls in the whole world?” Salesgirl: “Yes, you are”.
The morning after her big birthday bash, things turn sour. Shelley is handed a note, later shown to be a fake, presented as coming from Hefner, asking her to leave the mansion immediately. Unable to reach Hefner for verification, Shelley leaves. After a few days of living out of her car, she ends up as the housemother to the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority of some college. This sorority is down to seven members, all socially challenged in various ways, and is about to lose its house. The rest of the film shows Shelley remaking the sorority and its members into a social success with the males of the species. At the end of the film, we get the requisite nod to superficial feminism, i.e., the confirmation that appearances are transitory and that it’s the inner beauty that counts, and, of course, the sorority gains enough additional members to keep the house.
Let’s face it, most of the film is silly. Even if you are just a run-of-the-mill feminist, there is no way you will like it, unless endowed with a well-functioning sense of humor. By the way, it was not written by some old male chauvinist pig but by two young female writers, Kristen Smith and Karen McCullah. There are some excellent individual lines in the film. Among them, “The eyes are the nipples of the face” and “A brothel? Oh, I am not looking to make soup”. And who can suppress a smile as Shelley describes her humble career in the Playboy magazine by “Just a couple of small pictorials. Girls of the Midwest. Girls with GEDs. Girls of Charlie Sheen.”
I am not the only fan of Anna Faris’ films. Dana Stevens headlines her 8/21/2008 review of The House Bunny with “SAVE FARIS – When will someone give Anna Faris the role she deserves?”.
The strength of Anna Faris’ performance, in this film as well as in others, is that she is not only a top-tier natural comedian but that she gives it her all, whatever the quality of her lines.
PS. I ordered the 2018 remake of “Overboard”, also with Anna Faris. Looking forward to it.
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024
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Me alegra haber comprado el Bluray porque aunque desaparezca de los servicios de streaming, mientras existan reproductores podría seguir viendo esta joya cinematográfica.
Muy recomendable aún para los cínicos. Espero que les saque algunas sonrisas, e incluso una que otra carcajada.
Goed aangekomen.
PLAYMATESっておバカ女の象徴!って思っているアナタも十分楽しめると思います。
展開もある程度見えるので気をもまず、笑いあり、Heartキュンなシーンあり、B級GIRL'S MOVIEです。
日本の大学には無いソロリティ(sorority)ライフが見られるのもいいですね。